Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-05-19
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

killed by being struck by the point oil
his plow.
Fire destroyed two granaries and a
cattle shed $50 feet long on Mrs.
| Leeds farm, six miles southwest oil
Lenox. Loss 50, 1000; insured IN the
st. Paul Fire q Marine.
The supreme court convened on the
10th at Yankton. One hundred at
tornevs werein attendance from North
Dakota and Minnesota; among the
latter being Ex-Gov. Austin and r. +.
Lane, OF Sc. Paul, and r. K. Briggs
of Moorhead-
The American Life Insurance Associ-
alton OF Minneapolis has just unearth-
ed a very clever scheme by which the
company was defrauded out of 81, 600.
In the affair are implicated halfa doz-
en- persons, including a physician. a
Justice OF the peace and other parties
quite well known in the town OF Elk
wood.
ID. E. Keith, cashier of the Bank OF
EIkton. is under arrest for robbery.
The bank has closed. The fixtures were
attached for taxes.
j. NJ. Quinn, OF the Bismarck Trib-
une, was elected secretary OF the rail-
road commission; salary, Sl,5oo.
Gov. Church, in responseto an invi'
tation from the firemen's association,
has signiied his intention of being
present at the tournament at Mitchell
next month. He will be accompanied
by Mrs. Church.
Alvia Martin, a three-year-old chId
oil Rev. Martin of Deer Horn, Wilkins
county, died, having been poisoned
by eating arsenic which had been
placed about the house to kill mice.
Pierre voted $4,000 in bonds to
aid the Duluth, Pierre e Black Hills
railroad. President Hill. of the Man
itoba, is behind the scheme. 1t Is ex'
pected the road will reach Peirre from
Aberdeen by December.
The twenty-year bonds OF the city
of Sioux Falls to the amount OF $780,
600, given to the Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Falls & Northwestern road, were sold
to Melvin Grugsby for 3 1-S per cent
premium, he being the highest bidder.
Charles Griffin, sent up for burglary,
Jesse Fitch, for steaIinga money pack.
age from the company's sale in depos'
it, and John Sullivan, for robbing a
passenger OF a $40 ticket in the wait.
ing room, broke Jail at Mitchell and
escaped.
A contract with New York capital
lists for putting in areservoir system OF
water works at Bismarck was closed
IN Chicago.
A five-year-old son OF Sheriff Sund-
back was drowned at Sioux Falls.
The wife of Postmaster George ].
Love of Huron died in Cheyenne, while
returning from California, where she
had passed the winter.
TheNorth Dakota pharmacy board
met at Bismarck. 1t is composed OF
Fl. L. Hausseman, Grafton; E. c.
Maxey, Fargo, and Frank Frisby,
Bismarck. The board organized by
the election of Hausseman president
and Frank Frisby secretary and
treasurer. The new law goes into
effect June IL, before which time all
pharmacists must be examined. reg
istered and obtain certificates.
At Redfeld, NJ. G. Myer, cIothier
tailed recently. Liabilities, $1,000,
The assets will nearly cover the liabil-
tiles.
A farmer named Wright, sixty years
of age, hanged himself in a barn on
his farm near ArviIla. When found
he was dead. No aus is assigned.
J. V. Wells, president, and w. H.
Gates, secretary of the Fair assoeia-
zion, have negotiated with the Chicago
& Northwestern Railroad company
Tor additional grounds on the west
side of the driving park and race
course at Gary, so as to embrace
within the park nearly the entire
grove and a long stretch OF the Lac
Qui Parle creek.
Crops are more diversified in North
Dakota than ever before. The rains,
while they have hinGered seeding,
have greatly improved the condition
of soil.
Negotiations are now pending for
the establishment OF a daily paper
at Yankton.
The attorneys and judges severely
censure the territorial secretary for
delaying the publication OF the ses-
sion laws. In previous cases of this
kind it has been customary to have
the session laws ready for delivery
within so days after the adjournment
OF the legislature.
The entire outfit of the Vermont
City Journal was destroyed by fire.
Loss on outfit and building 81, 500;
no insurance. W. p. Watson, the edi.
tor, who was asleep in the office, bare
ty escaped with his life, losing every
thing in the way of clothing, library
and personal effects. Watson owns
the Willard Journal also, and will re-
move this outfit to Vermont City and
continue the publication of his paper.
Spontaneous combustion was the
probable origin OF the fire.
William ". Branch, an employee oil
the Manitoba railway at Fargo, com.
mitted suicide, shooting himself
through the heart and dying immedi.
ately. Branch had been i'll for some
time, and was rather moody and low
spirited.
Seeding in Yankton, Hutchinson,
Clay and Bonhomme counties is all
finished and farmers are temporarily
resting from their labors, with every
reason to expect "a favorable season
for growing crops.
The secretary of the interior has re.
versed the commissioners decision
holding the claim of Lafayette Coun-
Gil of land in section 8, township 153,
range "a, Devils Lake (Dak.) district.
because the land overran the amount
allowed for entry. Council gets 1S6
acres of land. He also reversed the
commissioners decision holding John
r. Hamilton's entry of land in sec.
tons ! and 2, township 81, range ~,
Duluth land district, for cancellation
on a special agents report that the
law hadn't been complied with.
Hamilton is allowed his land.
The Dakota State Binding Company
has Incorporated at Huron.
v. r. l.. Barnes, one of the pioneer
residents of Sioux Falls, died aged 81.
lie. W. Sailing a young farmer liy-
ing near Parkston, was killed by a
runaway team at that nIaca ne